Dong Zhuo and Li Ru were originally hurting each other while patrolling the Wuwei market. As a result, first Dong Zhuo "predicted" [a fire in the backyard], and then a servant came to report that "an assassin has sneaked into the back house and has been killed by Miss Zhang."
uniform", so he had to rush back from his inspection mission to confirm what happened.
In this incident, a total of one small door lock on the side was lost, two plates were dropped on the ground, three sets of external herbal medicines, window paper was punctured, and some information about various places was lost.
There is no doubt that these "assassins" were sent by the imperial court or Shi Changshi because they were worried about his reckless background as the governor of Liangzhou. Their original duties were to monitor and search for possible evidence of crime. It was found that Zhang Jie was purely
Surprisingly, if they went back quietly to report the matter, they might even give Dong Zhuo a headache, but they were stupid enough to want to arrest him directly...
In the inner room, Dong Zhuo poked Dong Bai's bulging face: "Grandpa knows you are angry, but can you let them out first? Although I don't know the specific situation, the unlucky ghosts who have been swallowed by you are almost crazy with fear."
Yes, grandpa still has something to ask them."
"Uh-huh -" Dong Bai puffed up his face and shook his head from side to side.
"The princess said, 'danger'." Lu Lingqi explained from the side.
"Oh?" Dong Zhuo was too lazy to correct the little girl's title. He touched his chin and began to think. Of course, this "danger" does not refer to the two of them. She should mean that even if she has good skills and wears a full suit, "
"Excellent" armor, these assassins still have ways to hurt him?
Jia Xu had already gone out. For detailed information about them, it seemed that he could only ask Li Ru. Dong Zhuo looked towards the garden outside.
"This time we didn't have enough protection, and an assassin sneaked into the house. Fortunately, Miss Zhang helped us, and the two young ladies were safe. I'm very grateful." Li Ru was in the garden touting Zhang Jie, who looked obviously unaware of what was going on.
"It's a small effort, not worth mentioning - no!" Zhang Jie, who was wearing a pink double-breasted skirt, shook her head vigorously, her single ponytail tied with a pale pink bow swaying: "This is actually not my credit..."
"Hmm..." Li Ru looked at the glaring King Kong, who was just a light yellow whirlwind from the waist down, but had strong muscles, an unusually tall figure, and some of the clothes and accessories he wore had obvious traces of the Tao Ping Dao, and expressed doubt in his eyes.
"This is the 'Taiping Warrior', which can only be summoned by high-ranking Taoists. I'm still a little bit behind, but now that I'm in Liangzhou, all my uncles who might be able to do this have gone to save Qingniujiao. Tell me, who summoned you?"
Coming out?" Zhang Jie hit the "strong man" twice, but the other party just glanced at her, completely unmoved.
No wonder she was so anxious. If there were other senior officials secretly protecting her, wouldn't it mean that that person also broke into the back house without permission? What if Dong Zhuo refused to assist Liangzhou Taiping Road in anger?
Since the girl's thoughts were almost on her face, Li Ru didn't even need to guess, but he couldn't say that Mr. Dong didn't care about this, so he turned to say: "Maybe your father has left some means of protection on you. This matter does not matter.
It’s not important, now I want to ask Miss Zhang to describe the appearance, methods and words of the incoming assassin for the purpose of tracing."
"Well... they are all women. You can't tell their age by their voices. They are wearing black clothes and covering their faces with black cloth. They used a kind of powder to eliminate my Taiping Taoism. They didn't notice it at all before they appeared. Ah, by the way, they
When talking to each other, they mentioned 'Diao Chan', but I don't know if it is the name of one of them." Zhang Jie responded while thinking.
"Diao Chan?" Li Ru's face became a little serious.
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"Is this 'Diao Chan'... someone from the palace?" Dong Zhuo asked.
After letting Zhang Jie, who was a little restless, go to rest by herself, Li Ru came to the house and explained the ins and outs to Dong Zhuo and the two heroes who really solved the assassination incident.
"Father-in-law should know that according to Han law, there are servants in the emperor's palace and Sanqi, who often serve as third-class officials. Among them, the 'Shizhong' cannot leave the palace unless he is old. Cao Mengde's grandfather once held this position; 'Sanqi'
'Then patrol and defend Luoyang. The 'deputies' in the east, west, south and north also belong to this position. If they are not permanent guards, they are not allowed to enter the palace. As for the 'permanent attendants'..." When Li Ruyan reached this point, he laughed and stopped explaining.
"Hmph... It's because the 'Ten Constant Attendants' can enter and leave the palace at will and can handle any order issued by the emperor. The emperor is too lazy to deal with such 'trivial matters' and has the support of the Sword Master, so he has the power he has now,"
Dong Zhuo snorted and said, "So, Diao Chan is their subordinate?"
"Yes and no," Li Ru said, "My father-in-law often lives in the northwest. Maybe he doesn't know the clothes of these servants. They all have the word 'cicada' made of gold and jade on the front of their hats, and the tail of 'mink' on the suffix of their hats. The servants have cicada on the right and mink on the left.
Waiting for the cicada on the left and the mink on the right."
"Well, then we don't have to worry about killing the wrong person," Dong Zhuo said. "If we kill those colleagues of Cao Mengde's grandfather, it will probably be difficult to meet him in the future."
"..." Li Ru forcefully resisted asking questions such as "When will my father-in-law plan to enter Luoyang?" He paused for a few breaths before saying, "That's true."
"Continue to say, 'Diao Chan'." Dong Zhuo urged without realizing that he said something that needed to be taken care of.
"My son-in-law has not been to Luoyang for a long time, and maybe he knows something wrong," Li Ru said: "The duty of this female official named 'Diao Chan' is to take care of the officials when they take off their hats, or to help straighten them when they put on their hats, and to 'serve the middle'
They both have the authority to order them, so even though they are likely to be under the 'Ten Constant Attendants', they cannot be sure that they do not belong to a certain attendant."
"Hmm... maybe just like the 'Ten Permanent Attendants' taught by the Sword Master, they should also be trained to turn 'sneaking' into 'assassination' at any time." Dong Zhuo turned to look at Dong Bai's bulging cheeks and said.
"Because she is a female official in the palace, in order to prevent the emperor from having a whim when he meets her occasionally," Li Ru looked at Dong Bai and Lu Lingqi who were listening carefully, and finally changed his title: "Those selected as 'Diao Chan' usually have rough skin.
Ugly appearance.”
"!!" Dong Bai's eyes suddenly widened, and then he started chewing in his mouth.
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Some kind of faint scream that came from nowhere made Li Ru wipe his hands in cold sweat.
"Uh-huh--" Dong Bai stopped chewing, continued to puff up his face, and raised his little finger to point at Li Ru.
"The princess said, 'You lied'." Lu Lingqi translated.
"Yes, really? That's good." Li Ru was already incoherent.
"Don't think nonsense, those 'Diao Chan' are not in Abai's mouth." Dong Zhuo, who couldn't stand it anymore, interrupted.
He has seen that little girl Dong Bai has normal shell teeth and uvula. There is nothing strange except that she is particularly edible. But when "Wushuang" is activated, her mouth will turn into a deep and terrifying darkness, which can ignore the size.
Or the material directly "swallows" or "spits out" the target. What she was chewing just now was probably the "connection" needed to "spit out" those "diao cicadas", but she didn't scream in fear?
"How is it? They have been frightened for so long. They should not dare to make mistakes after they are released." Dong Zhuo turned to his granddaughter and asked.
Dong Bai frowned and thought for a moment, then shook his head.
"The princess said that we must wait for Master Lu Bu to come back." Lu Lingqi said.
She didn't make a sound at all just now!
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Northeast of Wuwei, the deserted Gobi.
A Liangzhou army of 50,000, led by Lu Bu, Gao Shun, Hua Xiong, Zhang Ke, Guan Hai and other generals, including 20,000 [trapped camp], attacked about 20,000 people, but there were no powerful generals.
He only thought that what he had to deal with was the Xiongnu reinforcements of about 10,000 "Taiping Army".
Even describing this battle as "destroying" or "powerful" is a disparagement of the Liangzhou Army.
"Humph, boring." Lu Bu looked at the fierce Liangzhou soldiers who continued to hunt down the remnants of the Huns because they had not yet obtained any military exploits. He reined in his horse in boredom and turned to Gao Shun who was following him:
"What are Li Wenyou's next actions?"
Because this operation was overall too simple, Li Ru did not sit in the middle of the army as usual and sent countless messengers to make tactical adjustments based on the battle situation. It would be better to say that there was no "Chinese Army" at all in this operation.
He made a series of "if...then" and "else...then" arrangements. Although each general only had three choices at most, Lu Bu still refused to remember those things.
"If we can successfully repel the Huns reinforcements before dark..." Gao Shun, who could only shoulder this burden, thought for a while and replied: "Go to 'rescue' the escort team that has just been kidnapped. Be sure to let the other party see clearly.
Lord Lu Bu’s appearance.”
"Then withdraw." To Gao Shun's expectation, Lu Bu turned the horse's head without any objection, "I feel Lingqi is missing me."
...Sure enough, Lord Lu Bu would not call himself "my uncle" only when referring to young ladies.
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Thirty miles further north from where Lu Bu withdrew his troops, there was the main force of the Xiongnu who led the army to help this time - the main force that was already half disabled. Due to the decisive and timely retreat, they still maintained their organizational structure for the time being.
Having learned the lesson of setting up a camp directly near the Han people's city and being wiped out in one fell swoop, this time they established a camp far away from the destination of the operation. As long as they can get there to defend, they may be able to wait for subsequent reinforcements...
"Boom! Snap!"
When the remnant Xiongnu army approached the camp, they heard the sound of two cannons, and a large flag with the character "Jia" was erected in the camp. Nearly a thousand Han troops poured out of the camp, followed by a "feather fan, silk scarf, majestic appearance"
"The counselor appeared on the low wall of the camp, pointing at the remnants and laughing.
Although there are still nearly ten thousand Xiongnu remnant troops, they have no fighting spirit. They built the camp themselves, and they know how to facilitate defense. So the Xiongnu general directly ordered to turn around and abandon this "support escort team to deal with it"
"Taipingdao" action.
"I remember the appearance of the counselor who cut off people's retreat." The Huns general retreated around the camp while looking at the figure above the earthen wall of the temporary camp fiercely: "In addition, the man next to him didn't do it twice.
Asked us to deal with the guy from Taiping Road, but ended up getting us ambushed twice?"
